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Life Quotes by Ray Dalio

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Ray Dalio compares life to a game where obstacles block goals and practice improves skill. He stresses taking full responsibility for outcomes and learning from mistakes to avoid repeating them. He also believes understanding what is good comes from seeing how the world works.

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“everyone has an important role to play in life.”

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“Dreams + Reality + Determination = A Successful Life.”

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Treat your life like a game.

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“the happiest people discover their own nature and match their life to it.”

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“Don’t hire people just to fit the first job they will do; hire people you want to share your life with.”

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Nature is a machine. The family is a machine. The life cycle is like a machine.

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There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.

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Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

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Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

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Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

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Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

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People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible…

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I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to…

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Remember that experience creates internalization. Doing things repeatedly leads to internalization, which produces a quality of understanding that is generally vastly superior…

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If it didn't happen in your life before, then you're not paying attention you don't think it's possible. But almost all important…

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“Most of life’s greatest opportunities come out of moments of struggle; it’s up to you to make the most of these tests…

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“Everything important in your life needs to be on a trajectory to be above the bar and headed toward excellent at an…

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People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also…

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When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is…

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I believe that we all get rewarded and punished according to whether we operate in harmony or in conflict with nature's laws,…

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Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing…

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By and large, life will give you what you deserve and it doesn't give a damn what you like. So it is…

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I learned that everyone makes mistakes and has weaknesses and that one of the most important things that differentiates people is their…

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People who excel at book learning tend to call up from memory what they have learned in order to follow stored instructions.…

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The best advice I can give you is to ask yourself what do you want, then ask 'what is true' - and…

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Sometimes we forge our own principles and sometimes we accept others' principles, or holistic packages of principles, such as religion and legal…

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Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face.…

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I have been very lucky because I have had the opportunity to see what it's like to have little or no money…

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“Distinguish between you as the designer of your machine and you as a worker with your machine. One of the hardest things…

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This is my year of transition from what I'm calling the second phase of my life to the third phase of my…

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“The evolutionary process of productive adaption and ascent—the process of seeking, obtaining, and pursuing more and more ambitious goals—does not just pertain…

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I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what…

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Principles are concepts that can be applied over and over again in similar circumstances as distinct from narrow answers to specific questions.…

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“For me, there is really only one big choice to make in life: Are you willing to fight to find out what’s…

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“the markets was much more fun than having a real job. As long as my basic living expenses were covered, I knew…

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“Evolving is life’s greatest accomplishment and its greatest reward.”

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Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

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“the primary purpose of every living thing is to act as a vessel for the DNA that evolves life through time.”

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Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse…

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Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons…

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“Having a process that ensures problems are brought to the surface, and their root causes diagnosed, assures that continual improvements occur.”

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“Remember that a good plan should resemble a movie script.”

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I'm scared of one man, one vote because it suggests that everybody has an equal ability at making decisions, and I think that's dangerous.

“A manager’s ability to recognize when outcomes are inconsistent with goals and then modify designs and assemble people to rectify them makes all the…

“So I learned to be radically open-minded to allow others to point out what I might be missing.”

“During those terrible days after 9/11, when the whole country was being whipsawed by emotion, or the weeks between September 19 and October 10,…

“is more effective to train that subconscious, emotional you the same way you would teach a child to behave”

I think that the first thing is you should have a strategic asset allocation mix that assumes that you don't know what the future…

Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better…

“when we look down on ourselves through the eyes of nature we are of absolutely no significance. It is a reality that each one…

“Great questions are a much better indicator of future success than great answers.”

“Georgi Plekhanov’s classic On the Role of the Individual in History.”